New This Month

Dear Colleagues,

These days, the focus on evidence-based treatment, manualized therapy, neuroscience, and the like is inescapable. But are we losing touch with clients as full human beings: complex, creative, and ultimately mysterious? We know that we are more than our amygdalae and our anxiety, and yet forces in the field push toward reducing our clients to discrete components in order to make therapy more "scientific" or medicalized.

Interview with Expressive Arts Therapist Maria Gonzalez-Blue

In our interview on Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy, Maria Gonzalez-Blue reminds us of the humanizing Rogerian principles that have had such a pervasive influence on counseling and psychotherapy, and then discusses how using expressive arts can help clients explore internal experiences that words—and diagnoses—cannot easily illuminate. 1 CE credit available.

Excerpt of New Irvin Yalom Novel

In his texts and novels, Irvin Yalom has repeatedly shown us how much we as therapists, and as human beings, have to learn from philosophy and literature. We are pleased to publish an exclusive excerpt of his latest novel, The Spinoza Problem, following in the footsteps of his two other philosophical novels, When Nietzsche Wept and The Schopenhauer Cure. 

Two New DVDs: Carl and Natalie Rogers

Discover the transformative power of moving beyond words in Expressive Arts Therapy in Action with Natalie Rogers, PhD. You'll witness Natalie demonstrating this approach in two remarkable sessions with a woman struggling with a career decision. If you are looking for new tools to enliven your work and help clients go deeper, this video will fit the bill. 2.5 CE credits available.

Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Therapy takes you right to the source. In this never-before-released interview, recorded two years before his death, you’ll get a sense of Carl as a person: authentic, thoughtful, humble, and deeply passionate about his work and the world at large. Listen in as he offers his insights into psychotherapy, education, and social change. 2 CE credits available.

Our recently produced DVD Psychotherapy for Chronic PTSD has received glowing endorsements from MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jonathan Shay, and Brigadier General (Ret.) Stephen Xenakis. We like a pat on the back as much as they next guy!

Call for Writing and Videos

Want to share your professional wisdom, insights, and/or confusion with your colleagues? Do you enjoy writing, but find that APA style cramps your creative process? Want to receive up to $500 credit for DVDs and CE courses? If so, we want your writing!

Have you ever made videos of your work with clients, or would you like to? We are working on a collection of counseling and therapy videos with a publishing partner, and are looking for new material. If interested, contact us for details.

And, as always, a new cartoon is up for your viewing pleasure.